Tad Friend
Theodore Porter "Tad" Friend (born September 25, 1962) is a staff writer for The New Yorker who writes the magazine's "Letter from California".
Life
[edit | edit source]Born in Buffalo, New York, Friend was raised there and in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where his father, Theodore Friend, was president of Swarthmore College. He was educated at The Shipley School and Harvard University.
Friend was a contributing editor at various publications, including Esquire, prior to becoming a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1998.[1] His work there includes the magazine's "Letter from California".[1] In 2001, he published "Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands", a collection of his articles. His memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, was published in 2009.[1]
Friend is married to food writer Amanda Hesser, with whom he has twin children. He lives in Brooklyn Heights.
Bibliography
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Books
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Interviews
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American male journalists
- Harvard University alumni
- Writers from Buffalo, New York
- Journalists from Buffalo, New York
- The New Yorker staff writers
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American male writers
- People from Brooklyn Heights
- People from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
- Shipley School alumni
- 21st-century American male writers